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Microsoft engineers continue increasing their contributions to the Linux kernel where it makes business sense for them, such as in the case of securing the Azure cloud given that around 50% or more of the instances run Linux. With Linux 5.12 there are integrity subsystem improvements coming from Microsoft...

Microsoft Contributes Integrity Improvements To Linux 5.12  Phoronix

Netrunner OS 21.01 Released with Linux 5.9, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10.7  LXer

Development Board with HDR imaging, GSM, GPS > Linux/Python  All About Circuits

Sent in last week were some AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 5.12. While there are some fixes as part of the series, there are some new (minor) features enabled...

AMDGPU With Linux 5.12 Sees Last Minute Duty Cycle Scaling, Other Bits  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation and DARPA Create Open Software Initiative to Accelerate US R&D Innovation  ARC Viewpoints

Dav1d is already the most performant and leading AV1 software decoder we have seen while out today is v0.8.2 that should speed-up the video decode process even more on modern x86/x86_64 and ARM hardware...

What Will Be Driving Growth of Linux Operating System Market Research Report 2020 | IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS  NeighborWebSJ

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, Segmentation, Analysis Report, Trends and Forecast By 2023 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Linux Operating System Market 2019 By Technology, Application, Specification, User Demand, Types, Opportunities, Growth, Revenue & Forecast 2023 – SoccerNurds  SoccerNurds

Global Linux Operating System Market 2025: IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, Debian, Manjaro  NY Market Reports

Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in the staging/IIO updates for the Linux 5.12 kernel and this time around are lighter than normal but still with a few interesting items worth mentioning...

Intel's Laptop Hinge Sensor Driver Sent In For Linux 5.12, Other Staging/IIO Work  Phoronix

If you're looking for performance, complexity, or many possible solutions to solve a problem, C ++ is always a good candidate when it comes to extremes. Of course, functionality usually comes with complexity, but some C++ peculiarities are almost illegible. From my point of view, C++ method pointers may be the most complex expressions I've ever come across, but I'll start with something simpler.

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Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover  Medium

In a previous article, I covered how to create a small app with Knative, which is an open source project that adds components to Kubernetes for deploying, running, and managing serverless, cloud-native applications. In this article, I'll explain Knative eventing, a way to create, send, and verify events in your cloud-native environment.

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In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. This article discusses the benefit of choice Linux brings. 

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STM32MP1 Linux SoM fits into Pico-ITX carrier board  CNX Software

Linux Operating System Market Growth 2026: including key players IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint  NeighborWebSJ